18 Related Articles, between 2018-10-16 and 2018-10-13

Brooklyn DA Pilots Program Targeting Opioid Addiction. Law enforcement officials have repeatedly said they can't arrest their way out of the opioid epidemic. Now the Brooklyn D.A. is launching a new program to give low-level offenders treatment instead of jail time.... >>

Brooklyn Man Billed for Internet After Canceling. What do you do when a company keeps billing you for a service you've canceled? Lynda Baquero reports. >>

Brooklyn School Goes Extra Mile to Help Families. Something most of us take for granted is changing life for the better for New Yorkers in temporary housing. Roseanne Colletti reports. >>

Brooklyn woman calls 911 on nine-year-old boy who 'grabbed her a**' in viral video. A viral video of the dramatic scene outside a bodega in Brooklyn on Wednesday shows the unidentified woman on the phone with dispatchers as the accused assaulter cowers behind his mother. >>

Gavin McInnes’s Journey: Brooklyn Hipster to Far-Right Provocateur. A divisive figure for 20 years, Mr. McInnes is known for not only for his brash far-right rhetoric, but for the willingness of his followers to fight. >>

Hasidic victim recalls attack by enraged cab driver on Brooklyn street. Leopold Schwartz says cab driver Farrukh Afzal assaulted him without provocation: 'If he had a knife, he would stab me on the spot' >>

Hate Crime: Jewish man beaten on the way to Brooklyn synagogue. The attack occurred when a man of Middle Eastern descent got out of his car and chased the Jewish man into the middle of the intersection where he threw him down on the road and began to beat him. >>

KIIS newsreader Brooklyn Ross reveals his mother's desire to send him to gay conversion therapy. He's the openly gay newsreader on KIIS FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show. But Brooklyn Ross, 30, has revealed he wasn't always made to feel comfortably about sharing details of his sexuality. >>

Man Who Allegedly Exposed Himself to 2 Girls Arrested: NYPD. A man who allegedly exposed himself to two young girls in Brooklyn while dressed as an MTA worker has been arrested, police said. Photo Credit: Handout >>

Official Asks NYPD to Investigate 'Cornerstore Caroline'. The Brooklyn borough president has asked the NYPD to investigate whether a woman dubbed "Cornerstore Caroline," who called 911 and wrongly accused a child of groping her. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. >>

Sources: Man Mad Over Cocaine Kills Random Person With Kick. A 63-year-old man panhandling on a Brooklyn street died after taking an unprovoked kick to the back over the weekend, and the man police believe was behind it allegedly told cops he was just angry his friends... >>

This Is What Gentrification in Brooklyn Sounds Like. “Place,” a meditation on social and personal change, was made by the composer Ted Hearne, the poet Saul Williams and the director Patricia McGregor. >>

Video: Surveillance video proves that 'Corner store Caroline' was wrong. Surveillance footage shows that Corner store Caroline was never grabbed by 9-year-old boy inside a bodega in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. >>

White woman who called the cops on a black boy, 9, accusing him of 'grabbing her a**' apologizes. Teresa Klein, dubbed 'Cornerstore Caroline' on social media, left the young boy in tears after she started an explosive argument with the boy's mother in a Brooklyn bodega on Wednesday. >>